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Jul 2026
Through dick and dünn: cognates and the legacy of diachronic change in synchronic language processing
ABSTRACT Cognate facilitation effects have consistently been reported for words sharing (visual) form–meaning overlap across languages. We present the results of a cross-modal EEG study investigating whether historically-related L1 cognates’ phonological representations (activated by auditory primes, e.g. [maʊ] from [m...
Joshua Booth, Felicia Stich, Isabella Fritz et al.
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